Keeping the Faith (2000)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 36
A dramedy featuring an unusual love triangle, Keeping the Faith is a perceptive look at how religion affects us in everyday life.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 12
A dramedy featuring an unusual love triangle, Keeping the Faith is a perceptive look at how religion affects us in everyday life.
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Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton) and rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller) have known each other since childhood. When Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), whom they both knew as children, returns to New York, both men find themselves infatuated with her, sparking both rivalry and personal dilemmas: Brian has taken a vow of celibacy, and Jacob is allowed to marry only within his faith. Award-winning director Milos
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Cast
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Edward Norton
Brian Finn -
Ben Stiller
Jacob Schram -
Jenna Elfman
Anna Reilly -
Anne Bancroft
Ruth -
Eli Wallach
Rabbi Lewis -
Ron Rifkin
Larry Friedman -
Milos Forman
Father Havel -
Holland Taylor
Bonnie Rose -
Lisa Edelstein
Ali Decker -
Rena Sofer
Rachel Rose -
Ken Leung
Don -
Brian George
Indian bartender
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All Critics (120) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (79) | Rotten (36) | DVD (11)
A romantic triangle dating movie as confected, and nearly as wholesome, as a '50s Universal bedroom farce, but lacking the confidence and zest.
Top CriticThe ending gets a little too cute, and isn't true to Anna's independent nature. Oh well, to forgive is divine.
An astute directorial debut for actor Edward Norton.
It's as soft and squishy as anything by Nora Ephron or pre-caustic Woody Allen.
Keeping the Faith refreshes the old-fashioned screwball comedy.
An amusing distraction with clever writing and performances.
Classic romantic triangle for teens and up.
Norton quickly finds the right note of relaxed sweetness, gentle humor, and swooningly earnest romance.
Flawed but entertaining...
So, a rabbi and a priest fall in love...
A slight and uneven but very charming romantic comedy.
Well-meaning and decently put together, and it has occasional moments of charm...[but] more than a trifle stale.
I sure wasn't expecting much.
Epic dramas can be two hours or more. For light comedy, brevity is better. What could have been a great comedy is just a good one.
The script administers a relentless string of laughs, most of them genuinely funny.
It's a unique blend of charisma, wisdom, and emotion, rendered in a most appealing package.
There is genuine chemistry among this trio that is fun to watch, and the script will keep you giggling.
The movie's biggest surprise is the fine balance it strikes in navigating the tricky passage between offensive and funny.
A charmingly sloppy affair [full of] banter and the free-wheeling spirit of old Hollywood romances... a sun-drenched cinematic field trip.
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A story about two friends, a priest and a rabbi, who fall in love with the same beauty (Jenna Elfman)
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Norton and Stiller are clergy (a priest and a rabbi, sounds like the start of a joke), Elfman is their friend who is secretly dating Stiller and who is secretly loved by Norton. What I think is most exceptional about this movie is the way it portrays these clergy as cool guys - I mean, there's really cool clergy just like there's really cool fireman and loggers and truck drivers. And it does so in a way that doesn't entirely compromise their faith, although some of the stuff Norton says or does is not quite right (and for the moment I'm not talking about his attraction to Elfman). I am also a huge Elfman fan, I think she's beautiful as well as extremely effective in her roles. Seeing this film made me wonder if Ben would be better served by serious roles more often, he's very effective and avoids the silliness and gross humor that can sometimes sabotage his comic performances. Nice supporting work by Bancroft and the always appreciated Wallach. Recommended for light entertainment.
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